Erin’s Own win Premier Junior title

 

Erin’s Own 1-14 St Catherine’s 2-9

A strong finish to the first half on Saturday evening laid the foundation for Erin’s Own to achieve back-to-back county hurling titles.

For the third year in four since the reformatting of the Co-op SuperStores Cork Hurling Championships, the junior A winners have gone on to immediate glory in the next grade – previously known as the Lower IHC and now the Premier JHC.

 

Scorers for Erin’s Own: A Bowen 0-4 (0-1 f, 0-1 65), J Kavanagh 1-1, J McMahon 0-3, A O’Sullivan, R O’Flynn 0-2 each, T Foley, M Collins 0-1 each.

St Catherine’s: D Mangan, S Cotter 1-0, S O’Donoghue 0-3 (0-2 f), E Davis (0-1 f), B Mulcahy 0-2, O Fitzgerald, K Barry 0-1 each.

ERIN’S OWN: T Dillon; A Moynihan, P Fitzgerald, B Nolan; B Óg Murphy, I O’Mahony, C McDonnell; S Murphy, G O’Mahony; A Bowen, J McMahon, T Foley; A O’Sullivan, M Collins, J Kavanagh.

Subs: R O’Flynn for Foley (41), A Power for McMahony (54), C Dunphy for O’Mahony, C O’Mahony for Collins (60).

ST CATHERINE’S: E Davis; F O’Connell, E O’Riordan, L O’Conor; E Wallace, K Wallace, C Hegarty; O Fitzgerald, S Cotter; D Morrisson, R Galvin, S O’Donoghue; B Mulcahy, D Mangan, K Barry.

Subs: E Condon for Mangan, G O’Brien for E Wallace (both half-time), K O’Donoghue for Morrison, M Mulcahy for Barry (both 40), J Neville for O’Connell (51).

Referee: A Hyland (Kilworth).